US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on Oct. 21 for "Computing estimated value of providing service among geographical regions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,623, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Computing estimated value of providing service among geographical regions" was invented by Haowei Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Monique Johanna Maria van den Boogaart (San Francisco) and Hao Min (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system predicts a value estimate for a user who provides a service that involves moving among geographical regions (e.g., a transportation service). The system determines the value estimate by identifying a sequence of time periods, each time period having an associated set of geographical regions. Possible trans...